Varttumisen tuska

Name: Family Life
Genre: Drama
Released: 1974-02-15
Duration: 1 h 48 min
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Sandy Ratcliff, Bill Dean, Grace Cave

Original title: Family Life

19711971
K-16K-16
1h 48m

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7.6/10

1.8K

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Sandy Ratcliff in Varttumisen tuska (1971)

Drama

A family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise... Read allA family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated.A family is shattered over the daughter's forced abortion. As she rebels against her family and their traditional, authoritarian, typical-of-the-time norms, she is hospitalized and otherwise mistreated.

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7.6/10

1.8K

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Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
- 6 wins & 1 nomination total

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Michael Riddall in Varttumisen tuska (1971)

Grace Cave, Bill Dean, and Sandy Ratcliff in Varttumisen tuska (1971)

Grace Cave, Bill Dean, and Michael Riddall in Varttumisen tuska (1971)

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Trivia
Director Bille August cites "Family Life" as one of his greatest influences.

Quotes
Mrs. Baildon: Well, this is the thing that baffles me, Doctor, um, she really was quite a model child, she was tidy, in fact, I used to go into her bedroom some mornings and it-it was so tidy, it really didn't look as if anyone had been in there.

Connections
Featured in Versus: The Life and Films of Ken Loach (2016)

Soundtracks
Down by the River
(uncredited)
Written by Neil Young
Sung in the therapy group

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Featured review

4/10

Family Life

Sad, extremely true to life, though. Teenage girl trying to find herself while being restrained by parents who believe it's their way or the highway. No room for discussion, zero tolerance on the parents part. I could find no evidence of Schizophrenic behavior with the girl. Perhaps slightly bipolar. I felt extremely hurt by the mother's decision to make the girl abort her baby with no thought for how the girl would feel. The parents constant insistence that 'they know best' was so apparent throughout. The elder sister arguing with the parents in front of the g'children very sad but so much part of the family's everyday life.

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